About

Still from The City of Ladies a filmic exploration of one of the earliest feminist texts written in 1402.

Contact: zanny.b[at]gmail.com.

Zanny Begg is a Sydney based artist and film maker who is interested in exploring the archeology of contested history/ies and the architecture of social change. She works with film, drawing and installation to explore ways in which we can live and be in the world differently: this has included working with macro-political themes, such as alte-globalization protests, and in micro-political worlds, such as with kids in prison. She is the 2016 winner of the Incinerator Art Award, Art for Social Change.

Her work is often collaborative, she has worked with The Choir of Love, Oliver Ressler, Keg de Souza, Refugee Art Project, Dmitry Vilensky (Chto Delat?) among others. Zanny has run numerous practical and theory workshops including working with children and young people and is interested in open source learning and radical pedagogy. She is a founding member of the art collective Undrawing the Line.

Zanny Begg filming What Would it Mean to Win?, 2008, Germany. Photo by Oliver Ressler.

T he City of Ladies installation shot The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Recent exhibitions:

2017: The Bullwhip Effect, in The Long Paddock, Wagga Wagga Gallery, NSWThe City of Ladies (with Elise McLeod) in The National, Museum of Contemporary Art, SydneyFeminania (with Elise McLeod) , Nominated for the Redlands Prize, National Art School GalleryNothing else but cant, Cartography of Imagined Places, New York and Cementa, NSW

2016:Turn in Exhaust, Contemporary Art Tasmania, part of the dark mofo festivalHow to Blow up a Bubble that Won’t Burst, in Imagine a City – 200 Years of Public Architecture in NSW, The State Library, Sydney, Summer School, Box Copy Brisbane and URBNE Film Festival, Milan1001 Nights in Fairfield shortlisted for the Blake Prize (2015), Casula Powerhouse, Sydney (selected for touring exhibition exhibited at Wangaratta Art Gallery), shortlisted for the Fisher Ghost Award (2015), finalist in the LICHTER Art Award (2016), Frankfurt, selected by Werner Herzog for participation in the Rogue Film School (2016), screened Melbourne International Film Festival (2016), Antenna Documentary Film Festival (2016) and Winner of the Incinerator Art Award, Art for Social Change (2016), outstanding contribution Whyalla Art Prize (2016).The Swamp (Undrawing the Line), in safARI, Sydney, Video in Progress, Ljubljana, One Night at the Museum, Fairfield Museum and Gallery and Kings School Art PrizeThe Right of Passage (with Oliver Ressler), in If All Relationships Were to Reach Equilibrium, Then This Building Would Dissolve, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK, and featured in Facets Vol. 1, Disruptive Film.In the Shade of the Waq Waq Tree (Undrawing the Line), MOCAK – Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Housing the Many exhibition and conference, Gängeviertel , Hamburg.

2011: Freeways “Out the Window” project Los AngelesThe Focus Group in Sharjah Biennale, Plot for a Bienniel film program, United Arab EmiratesTreat (or Trick) in It’s the Political Economy Stupid, Open Space, Vienna
Zugzwang in The Zero Dollar Show, West Space, Melbourne

Zanny Begg is a Sydney based artist, curator, writer and organiser. Her work uses humour, understated drawings and found cultural artifacts to explore ways in which we can live and be in the world differently.
zanny.b[at]gmail.com

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